Solidarity in the Conversation of Humankind: The Ungroundable Liberalism of Richard Rorty - Couverture rigide

Geras, Norman

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0860914534 ISBN 13 : 9780860914532

Editeur : Verso Books, 1995

Synopsis

In this book, Norman Geras engages with the work of Richard Rorty to explore the paradoxes of a liberalism which rejects and determinate view of human nature. He begins by examining Rorty's thesis concerning rescuer behavior during the Holocaust. Measuring it against existing research on the subject and the testimony of rescuers themselves, Geras questions Rorty's use of their moral example as a challenge to universalist assumptions. He then considers some of the problems in Rorty's anti-essentialism: his shifting usages of 'human nature'; the paradoxical pleas for extensive forms of solidarity on the basis of parochial communitarian premises; the relationship of pragmatist notions of truth to issues of justice; and the project of democratic, would-be 'humanist' utopia grounded only on contingencies.
Solidarity in the Conversation of Humankind is an imagined dialogue with Rorty-influential, eloquent and unorthodox champion of a humane radical liberalism.

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À propos de l?auteur

Norman Geras (1943-2013) was a political theorist and Professor Emeritus of Government at the University of Manchester. His books include The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg; Marx and Human Nature: Refutation of a Legend; The Contract of Mutual Indifference: Political Philosophy After the Holocaust; and Crimes Against Humanity: Birth of a Concept. From 2003 onwards he also wrote at normblog.typepad.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0860914534
• ISBN 13: 9780860914532
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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